Briana Shepherd

Briana Shepherd is a tri-media reporter in the Perth newsroom. She completed a Bachelor of Communications with a double major in Journalism and Broadcasting and a Graduate Certificate of Radio Broadcasting from Edith Cowan University. Follow Briana on Twitter @_brianashepherd

Something is brewing at WA's Banksia Hill Detention Centre but it's not trouble — it's coffee — and it's being made and served up by inmates whose good behaviour qualified them to attend a 10-week accredited barista course.

WA's lucrative rock lobster fishery has already reportedly lost value due to uncertainty over the Government's proposed shake-up, with fishers saying they fear for their future of the industry and their families.

A Perth tech company is recognised internationally for its development of a medical device that could allow surgeons to "see" what they "feel" during breast cancer surgery. OncoRes developed a new imaging tool which could be a game-changer in how breast cancer is detected.

For many children with autism, trying to visit Santa in a noisy shopping centre can turn into a stressful and overwhelming experience, but a new program offers families a calm and peaceful alternative.

After five years in the WA Football League, Alex Ridley is conquering the global sports stage — but the 50 hours he spends training every week are now done within the four walls of his study, from the click of a mouse.

Ken Atherton's mother took her life two weeks before his 18th birthday. Two years later he was in jail because his lifestyle was then a crime. It took him four decades to embrace who he really was, and his triumph has now been immortalised on canvas.

The family of Callan Everts pays tribute to him after he dies from injuries suffered in a scooter accident on the island's south coast, describing him as "an absolute gentleman, a professional, and a real family man".

Golden Globe Race competitor Gregor McGuckin thanks rescuers who plucked him and another sailor from the Indian Ocean, far off the WA coast, as he is reunited with his partner after three months alone at sea.

More than 32,000 Australians declared bankruptcy during the 2018 financial year, with households in resource-dependent WA and Queensland doing it particularly tough — and outer suburbs with young families making up most of the 10 worst hit.

Passengers are becoming used to flights being cancelled due to weather, or even volcanoes, but now a new trend is beginning to upset travel plans across the country. Airlines are cancelling flights, even entire routes, because there is nobody to fly the plane.

Five Asian men receive hefty jail terms for their role in shipping ice worth an estimated $91 million into Australia aboard a rickety wooden boat called the Mega Profit II in what the sentencing judge calls a "well-planned and organised" operation.

When white anthropologists began studying Aboriginal culture, they came up with the term "Dreamtime" to describe the mythology and history of Indigenous Australians. They couldn't have been more wrong.

Jude Francis is sentenced to seven years in prison for manslaughter after he pursued teenager Mitchell Chase, who he mistakenly thought was riding his stolen trail bike in Perth's southern suburbs, into a passing SUV.

Martin Cooper was supposed to care for vulnerable children, but instead subjected them to horrendous and repeated physical and sexual abuse. When they went to adults for help, they were not believed. Now 40 years on, justice has finally been served.